Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 329
International Reform Activists Dissatisfied by BRICS Bank
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 17 (IPS) - The creation of BRICS' (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) own financial institutions was "a disappointment" for activists from the five countries, meeting in this northeastern Brazilian city after the group's leaders concluded their sixth annual summit here.
BRICS Forges Ahead With Two New Power Drivers – India and China
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 17 (IPS) - The Sixth BRICS Summit which ended Wednesday in Fortaleza, Brazil, attracted more attention than any other such gathering in the alliance's short history, and not just from its own members – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
BRICS Build New Architecture for Financial Democracy
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 16 (IPS) - The BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) launched the New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) during its sixth summit, institutionalising a new financial architecture for the emerging powers.
North’s Policies Affecting South’s Economies
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 16 (IPS) - Since the onset of the crisis, the South Centre has argued that policy responses to the crisis by the European Union and the United States has suffered from serious shortcomings that would delay recovery and entail unnecessary losses of income and jobs, and also endanger future growth and stability.
Big Business Opportunities Seduce BRICS Entrepreneurs
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 15 (IPS) - The growing vitality of the group of countries made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), which is beginning to formalise its institutions even as it tries to bridge very disparate realities, seems to be partly cemented by increasing links between its companies.
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jul 15 (IPS) - Olga Mugisa, 11-years-old, takes to the microphone in front of her peers, the Ugandan flag proudly draped behind her and green plants framing the stage. She has an important message to share with her fellow students: "If you cut one, plant two."
South Sudanese Children Starving While Aid Falling Short
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 15 (IPS) - Even as aid workers are warning that children in South Sudan are falling victim to mass malnutrition, international agencies are said to be missing their fundraising goals to avert a looming famine in the country.
OPINION: Why Asia-Europe Relations Matter in the 21st Century
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Hopes are high that the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting – or ASEM summit – to be held in Milan on October 16-17 will confirm the credibility and relevance of Asia-Europe relations in the 21st century.
Europe and the United States, Allies in Crisis
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Jul 14 (IPS) - A few decades ago, even before the end of the Cold War and before and after Ronald Reagan's election to the White House, analyses regularly referred to U.S. decadence. At other times, it was Europe's turn for pessimistic descriptions, especially when it could not overcome its ambivalence over deepening integration, and above all because of the failure of its constitutional project.
Time to “Drop the Knife” for FMG in The Gambia
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Jul 13 (IPS) - Women's rights activists in the Gambia are insisting that more than 30 years of campaigning to raise awareness should be sufficient to move the government to outlaw female genital mutilation (FMG).
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